Improvement in clothes-driers



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J. BENSTINE & O. H. 'OSBORN.

- Clothes-Drier.

No. 207,586. Patented Sept. 3,1878.

N. PETERS, PHOTO-LITKOGRAPNER, WASHINGTON. D c.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH BENSTIN E AND CHARLES H. OSBORN, OF OCONOMOVOG, WVISGONSIN.

' IMPROVEMENT lN CLOTHES-DRIERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 207,586, dated September 3, 1878; application filed July 7, 1877.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, JOSEPH BENsTINE and CHARLES H. OSBORN, of the city of ()conomowoc, in the county of Waukesha and State of Wisconsin, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Clothes Driers, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of a clothes drier with our improvements. Fig. 2 is the box. Fig. 3 is the cap. Fig. 4 shows the four arms. Fig. 5 is the post with the four halflnortises. Fig. 6 shows the clasps and fasteners.

The object of the invention is to secure the fastening of the arms to the posts by iron clasps, as shown by letters E, f, G, H, and B in Fig. 1; and the several parts of the clothesdrier and their connections are described as follows:

The box A is to go into the ground with a bottom plank attached to it. The post B is five feet long with diagonal half-mortises on the four sides of the post near the top, and

three feet from the top of the post is the circle for the cap 0 to fit into. The cap G 0, Fig. 3, is composed of two pieces, with a half-circle in each piece cut out, so that when put together they fit the rounded part of the post B. The four arms D (shown in Fig. 4) are made to fit in the four half-mortises of the post near the top. (Shown in Fig. 5.) The fastening device consists of the two bolts f f, passing through the two iron clasps E and G, the same length, forming a square around the arms D and the post B, and, with the two nuts H and H, serve to draw the clasp solid around the arms D to the post B. The four holes in the four arms D are twenty inches apart in each.

WVe claim as our invention- The combination of the post B, having diagonal grooves, with the arms D, held in place by the clasps E G, bolts f, and nuts H, as and for the purposes specified.

JOSEPH BENSTINE. G. H. OSBORN.

YVitnesses:

J. A. HAssnLL, EDWIN HURLBUT. 

